Escaping Work

Living for the weekend

In recent years it seems the ideology of escaping work has become more and more prevalent. A strange phenomenon when you think about it. We spend our entire childhoods imagining what it would be like to have different jobs, we act them out in the form of play and ask questions as to what people do as jobs and if we can do those things when we get older. Yet when it comes to actually working we decide that we'd rather not be at work and instead procrastinate until the working day ends.

TGIF - an acronym all too familiar to workers

The question you should ask yourself is why exactly is it you want to escape work?

It's too easy to have a negative attitude towards work as a whole, narrow it down and write a list of specifics. Take an average working day and think through the days events, at what points in the day do you feel like not being at work? Think of the reasons behind feeling this way - it could be people, processes, procedures or general activities. Once you have your list, then you are ready to start addressing those obstacles.

Wouldn't you rather be somewhere you don't want to escape from?

Think about it this way, rather than escaping work why not look at it from another perspective - if you make some changes and enjoy work, you won't want to escape it. Like any change it's going to take time and it's doubtful that the changes you can make will end up making work like a holiday but it will benefit you and others around you if changes are made meaning you can tolerate work and even enjoy it.